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They say in ancient Greek times the seas were thick with whales everywhere

The reason people wrote about whales so much back then was b...
bat-shit-crazy messiness
  01/06/26
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Godawful glittery library
  01/06/26
I want to know more.
Galvanic Reading Party
  01/06/26
You chose the wrong retard to get information from, he makes...
bright milk place of business
  01/06/26
So archaeological sites all over the world show populations ...
bat-shit-crazy messiness
  01/06/26
as i understand it, scientists use DNA diversity in the vari...
purple bawdyhouse
  01/06/26
Scientists had to even apologize to Ol' Pliny.
duck-like sadistic national wrinkle
  01/06/26
tp.
rose dead den
  01/06/26
The wine-dark seas were different
bisexual whorehouse
  01/06/26
the wine-dark seas were angry, my friend.
purple bawdyhouse
  01/06/26
https://x.com/TrevorABranch/status/2118397842574512504?a=t0u...
shitness
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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:10 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy messiness

The reason people wrote about whales so much back then was because you couldn't get away from them. Nothing like commercial fishing was even possible because whales ate all the fish and rammed your boat, so these vikings and Englishmen were just eating herring that spend half their lives in shallow waters near the shore. They say when we started commercial whaling we nuked the population by like 99.999% and now it's still way less than 1% what it was back then

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:11 PM
Author: Godawful glittery library



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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: Galvanic Reading Party

I want to know more.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:48 PM
Author: bright milk place of business

You chose the wrong retard to get information from, he makes a lot of it up

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy messiness

So archaeological sites all over the world show populations with strong reliance on whale oil and whale meat. There are so many whale bones at these sites that people had to have been hunting them all the time. We find this shit in oddball places like Korea and Scotland. Just everywhere.

There are also cave paintings of whales.

There are innumerable accounts of ancient sailors coming across huge pods of whales. Pliny the Elder seemed to know a fuckload about whales. Seemed to think they were tons of them out there.

What's hard to find is any evidence that whales were scarce. As far as I know, no one ever claimed they were hard to find.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:11 PM
Author: purple bawdyhouse

as i understand it, scientists use DNA diversity in the various whale species to estimate prior number which, as you note, were massively larger.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: duck-like sadistic national wrinkle

Scientists had to even apologize to Ol' Pliny.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 7:49 PM
Author: rose dead den

tp.

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:27 PM
Author: bisexual whorehouse

The wine-dark seas were different

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Date: January 6th, 2026 8:52 PM
Author: purple bawdyhouse

the wine-dark seas were angry, my friend.

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Date: November 6th, 2026 12:50 PM
Author: shitness

https://x.com/TrevorABranch/status/2118397842574512504?a=t0uC7sdQ58HS3EinxAY

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